About

Kate Blair is a young adult author, speculative fiction geek, ex-pat, ex-clown and ex-museum curator. Born in the UK, she emigrated to Toronto in 2008. She has two ridiculously young children and a lovely husband. She is represented by fellow Brit-in-Toronto Lydia Moëd at The Rights Factory.

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We met this past Tuesday, Jan.26th, 2016 at the SCBWI dinner meeting at Marches’.

I knew when you described the plot for your debut YA novel , ‘Transferral’ that I must read it! All week I stuck to my schedule of revisions for the Herzog series, as I looked forward to the weekend. Why you ask? I had plans, big plans, to do nothing else but sit somewhere with an occasional break and read your novel. I started my read with ‘eggs benedict’ beside the fireplace at the Heuther Hotel in downtown Waterloo. From there I moved to my living room with a bowl of G.H. Cretors , Chicago Mix. By then the story had me completely involved. I needed a break from the intensity. Not a bad kind of intensity , the intensity I love when I sit amongst a theatre filled with young teenagers watching the latest YA hit. From popcorn , I delved into a more adult menu at exactly midway point in the narrative. I felt like I was living Talia’s story. A glass of white wine from the Niagara region seemed suitable to relax a little. The next morning, there was no time for lengthy showers or hair styles, it was straight back to the book. Talia was caught after all. The heroine was a criminal about to experience the ‘Transferal.’ Jumping ahead, here we are at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday afternoon and it’s raining hard outside. I can see it from the window of my fourth floor apartment and I think to myself, it has been an incredible weekend with an incredible book. After savoring that thought for a bit, I’ll move on to a review. I’m hoping three things for you: first that you got movie rights written into your contract , second that you keep writing YA fiction, and thirdly that your kids surprise you by sleeping longer than you expect tonight. Thank you for going the distance so your readers could go on the ride!!

Thank you so much Joan. It was lovely to meet you last week. Am so glad you enjoyed the book. (I’m always kind of scared when someone is going to read it!) Good luck with your Herzog series. Hope to see you at another SCWBI meeting soon.

Every once in a while I’d do a search for the book you were working on in the writing class we shared (many years ago). I never forgot how it drew me into its sinister world and I felt sure I’d see it on the shelves one day.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been published (yet) but I’m delighted to learn that you have another story out – and it sounds amazing! Where can I go to get an autographed copy?